Hopefully you have noticed that I changed the style for my blog.  Hopefully you like the results.  I am finding that after the change things aren't always showing up right.  That has something to do with the way browsers cache web pages.  If things look weird (or don't appear) it may be due to a conflict with the "old" page that your browser has saved.  You may need to clear your browser's cache but I think the pages in the cache will expire in time and it will fix itself.  I'm not 100% sure about that.

Why Change?  I recently discovered that my blog seemed to be missing a few features.  For example, there were no trackback links available and I didn't like the category cloud.  I was using a nice theme named Kubrick that I found out on John Forsythe's site.  I don't know John but his site/blog has a lot of good information about dasBlog on it!  I liked the Kubrick theme because it was nice and clean with better colors.  But the default theme "DasBlog" seemed to have more "features" so I wanted to change back.  The problem is that I added my avatar (the caricature of me) to the  Kubrick theme.  I don't think the standard themes support avatars, although I don't know why.  So anyway, I needed to revise the dasBlog theme to include a place for my avatar and while I was at it, I changed a few other little things and created my own theme.  It was a good lesson in how dasBlog themes and macros work. 

All in all it is not that difficult to modify this stuff.  Of course, it helps if you are good at CSS.  Unfortunately, I am not.  So I had to cheat a bit.  I hope you like it.  It will probably change again as I find out about more available features.

If you have any issues viewing my blog now, I would REALLY like to know.  Please comment on this post if possible or contact me via email.